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In order to track parties’ positions on negotiating points at COP30, Carbon Brief has analysed nearly 100 submissions to the UN and captured them in a table ...

Billed as the “Amazon COP”, the UN climate talks will see the debut of Brazil’s flagship fund to “reward” tropical countries for keeping their forests intact. The Tropical Forest Forever Facility ...

Bloomberg covers a new report from Bloomberg Economics researchers which finds that “if the world collectively retreated from green policies, the global economy would shrink”. Carbon unit prices in ...

The latest round of country climate plans ‘barely move the needle’ on future warming, the head of the United Nations Environment Programme has warned ...

Developing countries are receiving just a fraction of the international finance they need to adapt infrastructure for ...

Adam Morton, Guardian Australia’s climate and environment editor, asks why Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese wants to host next year’s global climate summit in Adelaide when he is not ...

EU leaders took a step forward on their 2040 climate goal and the UN’s shipping body delayed carbon pricing after US pressure ...

Under the Climate Change Act, the government must lay out “ carbon budgets ” that set limits on the UK’s emissions over five-year periods. In 2021, the government announced it would cut emissions by ...

DEFORESTATION DOWN: On the eve of hosting COP30, Brazil’s government announced an 11% drop in annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, the fourth consecutive annual fall and lowest deforestation ...

Feeding the 8.2 billion people who inhabit the planet depends on healthy soils. Yet, soil health has been declining over the years, with more than one-third of the world’s agricultural land now ...

China’s surging electric vehicles ownership is opening the door to a new technology that can help to enhance the flexibility of electricity supply ...